10 little-known facts about Princess Diana

Today “Queen of Hearts” would have turned 55 years old.

Princess Diana with sons William and Harry 1990год

Photo: PA Images/TASS

To be the wife of Charles was intended sister Diana

Diana’s father, an ambitious Lord John Spencer, for many years nurtured a plan to give his daughter in marriage for Prince Charles. Only meant not Diana, and her older sister Sarah. And when a father Charles — Prince Philip, began to look for a bride for him, the candidacy of Sarah Spencer was considered one of the first. Not held the Union due to the fact that the press got a statement from Sarah: “I don’t care whose wife to be, Prince or scavenger, if only we had love!”

Diana was to marry Prince Andrew

His photo Diane kept at the bedside all the time while I was in school, “West Heath”. Family even called her the Duchess — this was the title of Diana, to become the wife of Andrew,Duke of York”. Andrew tied her children’s friendships in childhood they played together on the grounds of the Royal estate of Sandringham, where the Spencers rented mansion.

Princess Diana 1993год

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Two family secrets almost broke the marriage with the Prince

First: one of the great-grandmothers of Diana was the mistress of George IV and, according to rumors, even bore him an illegitimate child.

Second: great-great-grandmother Diana’s mother — Eliza Kewark — was an Indian, a native of Bombay, and one of the most carefully guarded family secrets of Spencers. If someone found out that none of the three daughters Frances Spencer will never be able to marry well.

Diana began to consider myself fat from all the bad shots in the newspaper

Seeing
in their press photos from the ceremony of the engagement, Diana was horrified, “God
my, I’m so fat!” Charles tried to comfort her, saying that she
looks great. And pinched her on the crease of fat on the waist.

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